Softcover ISBN: | 978-93-80250-22-9 |
Product Code: | HIN/3.S |
List Price: | $38.00 |
AMS Member Price: | $30.40 |
Softcover ISBN: | 978-93-80250-22-9 |
Product Code: | HIN/3.S |
List Price: | $38.00 |
AMS Member Price: | $30.40 |
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Book DetailsHindustan Book AgencyVolume: 3; 1998; 136 ppMSC: Primary 22; Secondary 32
This book presents the previously unpublished notes from a series of lectures given by the author at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1961. Basic material on affine connections and on locally or globally Riemannian and Hermitian symmetric spaces is covered. The final chapter proves the basic theorems on maximal compact subgroups of Lie groups. Readers should be familiar with differential manifolds and the elementary theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras.
A publication of Hindustan Book Agency; distributed within the Americas by the American Mathematical Society. Maximum discount of 20% for all commercial channels.
ReadershipGraduate students and research mathematicians working in topological groups, Lie groups, and differential geometry.
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This book presents the previously unpublished notes from a series of lectures given by the author at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1961. Basic material on affine connections and on locally or globally Riemannian and Hermitian symmetric spaces is covered. The final chapter proves the basic theorems on maximal compact subgroups of Lie groups. Readers should be familiar with differential manifolds and the elementary theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras.
A publication of Hindustan Book Agency; distributed within the Americas by the American Mathematical Society. Maximum discount of 20% for all commercial channels.
Graduate students and research mathematicians working in topological groups, Lie groups, and differential geometry.